B.C.’s police watchdog could soon have the power to investigate jail guards involved in incidents where someone dies or is seriously harmed and to forward reports for consideration of criminal charges in these cases.
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Quebec won’t have to pay Jean Charest $700,000
The Quebec government will not have to pay Jean Charest $700,000 for abuse of process. The Superior Court rejected the former premier’s request.
Ontario puts $1.3 billion toward building schools, child-care spaces
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province is putting $1.3 billion toward building and expanding schools.
Why Canada should prioritize protecting wild pollinator populations: UBC study
Better protections for wild pollinator populations in Canada could result in major financial gains for farmers while increasing food security across the nation, according to a new B.C.-based study.
B.C. to get wildfire training and education centre in response to expert task force
British Columbia’s premier says a training and education centre for wildfire fighters will be established in response to recommendations by a task force that looked into last year’s catastrophic wildfires.
Depressed since pandemic, Halifax museum’s parrot being shipped to Ontario
A parrot in Nova Scotia that has been showing signs of depression since the pandemic is moving to Ontario for a change of scenery and to make new friends.
Airstrikes on aid workers don’t ‘just happen,’ Trudeau says after Netanyahu comments
Attacks on aid workers are not something that just happens in war, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday, slamming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defence of a deadly airstrike in central Gaza on April 1.
Chow says Toronto not trying to ‘tax the rain’
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she has no plans to tax rain in the city.
‘Unexpected generation loss’ led to Alberta grid alert
An ‘unexpected generation loss’ in Alberta’s power system led to a grid alert being sent out on social media on Wednesday evening, the province says.
Dual Canadian-U.S. citizen killed in Gaza was a military veteran
Jacob Flickinger, a Canadian-U.S. citizen who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza working for World Central Kitchen, was a Canadian Armed Forces veteran.
